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If you’re a good salesperson, you’re not just selling your product, you’re selling yourself. In the case of 40-year old Wina Lia, she took that literally when she put her two-bedroom house in the Sleman district of Yogyakarta, Indonesia on the market with herself as an optional add-on. The house, which also has two bathrooms …

Have you ever stopped for a moment and wondered where the densest concentration of furry fetishists is in the world? Thanks to a Reddit user who analyzed location data of 7500 self-identified furries, we now have a handy heat map to show us just where the costumes mascots roam free. (For those of you out …

As this blog and the author’s Connectivity column have often pointed out, technology may make certain parts of our lives easier but sometimes, it complicates further the already difficult game of romance. One of the biggest new areas of potential miscommunication is how we use apps and text messaging in our interactions in our relationships, …

A new video by the American Ad Council showcases the diversity of love across the human spectrum by proving how we’re all exactly the same at our core. The video, which starts by showing embracing and dancing skeletons (real human x-rays), demonstrates how hard it is to know what kind of couples are embracing behind …

Tinder’s enhanced new paid app Tinder Plus debuted today with a few extra features, including unlimited right-swipes, the ability to search locations anywhere in the world and a backtrack button to fix mistaken swipes. In the U.S. the cost for the upgrade is $9.99 per month, but in the U.K., users of a certain age …

There’s something about male-centric institutions that seems to lead its members and leadership to becoming out of touch with the opposite sex. (See: extremist religion, your average boys high school locker room and the meninist “movement.”) Who’d have guessed, besides everyone, and especially the women enduring their collective ignorance? Our latest example comes to us from …

You’ve heard of having your palms read, but what about having your fingers decoded? A just released study conducted by Oxford scientists asks whether the difference in length between a person’s ring and index finger could reveal the likelihood that he or she would be unfaithful to a partner. Try that one on for size, …

So far 2015 has been an interesting year in the media for guys who are attracted to guys but aren’t gay. (If you can follow that, which I barely can). First, there was the debut of TLC’s “My Husband’s Not Gay,” a television special about four same-sex-attracted men who are married to women to reject …

We’ve all had dates that didn’t go that well or where we thought we felt connections that turned out to be duds; that’s just part of the game. But for one woman the “I’m just not that into you” discussion took a turn for the morbid when the clueless Romeo wouldn’t take the hint. Like …

Sometimes for the happily (or unhappily) unattached, conversations about romantic status with friends and family can be awkward, belittling or downright rude. While the prying questions or unwanted advice from married or otherwise coupled folks are not meant to be mean spirited, frequently the tone indicates pity or a desire to fix “the problem” of …